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Description: Live it up on Beach Road Camps Bay and sample the local flavor at Hard Rock Cafe Cape Town. We’re serving up our world-famous menu items like our Local Legendary® Burger all day, every day! There’s no better place to unwind than at our café, where you can sip hand-crafted drinks with the famous Table Mountain and Lions Head Beach as the backdrop. With 550 square meters and a double-story deck overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, we’re the best spot to bring your friends, order a drink, and take in the 190-degree mountain and ocean views.

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Description: Live it up on Beach Road Camps Bay and sample the local flavor at Hard Rock Cafe Cape Town. We’re serving up our world-famous menu items like our Local Legendary® Burger all day, every day! There’s no better place to unwind than at our café, where you can sip hand-crafted drinks with the famous Table Mountain and Lions Head Beach as the backdrop. With 550 square meters and a double-story deck overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, we’re the best spot to bring your friends, order a drink, and take in the 190-degree mountain and ocean views.

While The Hard Rock is an International Franchise, we still have to deal with the South African logic when it comes to Management!! 2 of the 7 White Wines were "Sold Out" - this on a Saturday at 18h00 during the first week of January!!We ordered Burgers, (The Hard Rock - what else!!) and one portion of Onion Rings, which are on the menu. Burgers arrived in 5 minutes of placing the order, impressive or maybe just too quick? No Onion Rings, after asking the friendly Waitron, who went to check if he placed the order on the computer, then went downstairs to the kitchen, only to return to say they too were "Sold Out" and sorry not available.Hence, why have a menu with 3 items (that we tried to order/ they may have been more) that are not available? Leaves a bad taste I think! Will not be back in a hurry! Good luck to the owners, hope the landlord has insurance!

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Ask GeoffC5 about Hard Rock Cafe Cape Town

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Good day GeoffC5, thank you for your feedback. We are so sorry that you did not have a good experience with us. We try to have deliver a service that is of high quality and we failed to do so for you. We have raised these concerns with management and we are looking at the best way to rectify this situation as a team. We hope that this will not be lasting impression that you have of the cafe and we hope that you will give us a second chance to redeem ourselves.

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Being avid travelers, we often eat at the Hard Rock Cafe in whichever city we are in. Sadly our home restaurant gave us the worst service experience. We were greeted by a friendly front of house hostess and taken to our table upstairs to enjoy the beautiful view of Camps Bay.

After a few minutes, our waiter came to hand out our menus, introduce himself - Simba - and take our drinks order. He seemed quite curt - for a waitron. He then took our orders - he made a mental note - no written order. He repeated it back to us and we corrected him, and off he went to place our orders - and that was the last we saw of him!

Our starters came - a kg of peri peri wings - which was good. Then once done - no one came to clean our table or to check if everything was ok. There were 3/4 waiters hanging around chatting.

Then came our mains - and our dirty starter dishes and empty glasses were still on our table! So we cleaned it up and handed them to the waiters who brought our mains and only took the dirty dishes handed to them. We then had to ask another waiter for drinks - which didn’t come after 10m - we were 2m from the bar! It was a bottle of still water and a Mai Tai. Apparently she couldn’t punch in the order - our waiter had to and she didn’t know where he had gone to!

At this point our exasperation was visible. We asked for the bill and told the waitress who had supposedly placed our second drinks order to cancel it - at which point she brought the bottled water! Still no sign of Simba!

I then went downstairs and the waitress asked if I would like to speak to the Manager. Bob came over and introduced himself. I related our less than satisfactory experience to him and he apologized for our terrible service- which cost R1050! So it wasn’t a cheap lunch - this was for 4 drinks, 2 portions of wings, a portion of ribs, chicken fajita and a burger.

He mentioned that the reason there were no managers on the floor upstairs is that they were having a management meeting. The upstairs was busy - and there were at least 4 waiters just standing around and it’s not a very big space upstairs- yet none of the waiters took the initiative to call a manager or solve the issue themselves.

I wasn’t very happy with Bob’s handling of the matter- but for the sake of the brand - I hope that they give their staff training on customer service.

Safe to say I won’t be going back.

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Ask Vanessa N about Hard Rock Cafe Cape Town

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Good day Vanessa N, thank you for your feedback. We are deeply saddened to hear that this was the experience that you had with us. We try to deliver Amplified Service in every regard and we failed to do so for you. Thank you for taking the time to write this review to us so that we are able to address these issues with the management team. I have also raised your concerns with our general manager and we are looking into the best possible solutions in order for this not to happen again. Please can you send us an email at smm@hrccapetown.com so that we can investigate this matter further. We will definitely be carrying out more training with our team to ensure that the guest has the best possible time with us. We do not want this experience to be the lasting impression that you have of the restaurant and do hope that you will return in the future.

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Good day Edinburghtwoplusone, you rock! Thank you for your 4* review. We are overjoyed that you found the food serving what you would expect from a Hard Rock and that you were met with good service. We will continue to deliver a satisfactory product and improve in areas where we need to. We cannot wait for your return :)!

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Positives:Great location- lively and busyRight across the road from the beachThey play nice music- a bit of everythingThey have a shop that sells merchandiseMac and cheese with chicken was delicious Friendly service

Negatives:Had to call or go look for our waiter the whole eveningBeggars in front of the restaurant asking for money/ food

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Ask nadia v about Hard Rock Cafe Cape Town

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Dear nadia v, thank you for your 4* review. We are delighted that you enjoyed the atmosphere and that you found the Twisted Mac and cheese delicious. We are sorry for the fact that you had to find your server. We have spoken to the management team and are looking at the best ways in order to rectify this with the whole team. We cannot wait to have you at the cafe again, definitely to try the Oreo cheesecake ;) until then, keep rocking!

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